Jeff Bingaman United States Senator from New Mexico

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Jeff Bingaman today talked with New Mexico radio reports about some of the benefits to seniors that are part of the health care reform bill that was passed into law earlier this year.  Bingaman's remarks can be retrieved by going to his website and following:

00:00 – Bingaman talks about the $250 checks seniors will be receiving to help close the prescription drugs coverage gap.

05:04 – Bingaman says he is now focusing his attention on implementing some of the recommendations that have come about as a result of the four Energy Committee hearing he has held.

08:00 – Bingaman comments on the President's upcoming address to the nation on the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.

09:45 – Bingaman talks about the President's proposal to deploy National Guard troops to the U.S.-Mexico border.

13:32 – Bingaman comments on proposals for a "Manhattan Project" on renewable energy.

15:28 – Bingaman says he has asked U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder to consider how New Mexicans traveling in Arizona may be affected by that state's new immigration law.